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FCC Hears Net Neutrality Arguments At Stanford

Professors Lawrence Lessig and Barbara van Schewick were quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about the recent FCC hearing held at Stanford:

Network neutrality advocates pushed the commission to adopt specific regulations prohibiting the discrimination of traffic. Led by Stanford law Professor Lawrence Lessig, who introduced the first panel of speakers, open-Internet backers said the Web must remain free to ensure consumer choice and technological innovation, which could be hampered by allowing operators to pursue arbitrary traffic-shaping rules.

"We need to be conservative in this debate and preserve what has worked in driving this economy," Lessig said. "And what has worked is a neutral network."